Lahaina is now contained. The pulehu fire, in the middle of the island, is about 70 contained. And officials are also dealing with a third fire in upcountry maui, with no estimate on its containment. In just over four days, the fires have burned roughly 2,000 acres, and have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. These are images from the Historic Town of lahaina, which was hardest hit. Local officials are allowing residents and tourists back into the town, but a nightly curfew is in place. We are now beginning to learn about the harrowing stories of survivors like this one, where one family was forced tojump into the ocean to escape the flames. The ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. But, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. I said, were not going to die, and were here, were alive. An unprecedented logistical effort is under way from all over the united states, as Government Agencies are mobilising resources to send to hawaii. The States National guard has chartered planes to
its abortion services. and how do countries adapt to climate change? we ll be looking at new zealand s plan to deal with the impact of global warming. welcome to bbc news. taiwan has scrambled fighter planes after chinese military aircraft entered its air defence zone. beijing is protesting against the visit by the us house speaker nancy pelosi, who vowed her country would never abandon the island, china has also begun manoeuvres around taiwan that are affecting air and shipping links. taiwan is self governing, and lies about 160 kilometres across the taiwan strait. it sees itself as independent, but china views it as its own. from taiwan, here s rupert wingfield hayes. despite what china has been saying, today s meeting between nancy pelosi and taiwan president ing wen didn t look terribly sinister. president tsai began by presenting ms pelosi with taiwan s highest civilian honour. she in turn praised taiwan s democracy and promised america would stand by the island. our sol
trump from being sandy has raised raised no more than $20 million since donald trump was convicted on those 34 felonies including $100 million reportedly from billionaire donor merrian evenson. but the white house are saying about all of that and will how much the trans- paris campaign by comparison, we might find out soon. high everybody, i m neil cavuto that will have you maybe some surprises in that building nine. over the uk jackie. good afternoon, neil. that biden campaign is not reading content s instead they re responding this way and also seeing them had a great stretching and fundraising of their own. have no doubt that the relation of an amount of money because his base we know is going to stick with him threw thick and thin whether he s a convicted felon or not. this campaign did in fact have one of the best stretches of fundraising in the campaign. campaign did not specify how much they ve taken him during the period they described as one of their
neil: and those and understand folks fearing it in key west, florida. robert? is the first week of hurricane season 2024 and the forecast unfortunately is amped up. know here in key west as beautiful as it is, there are major concerns about what potentially could occur in the months to come in a couple main issues, are sealevel rise which has been affecting really all of america s coastlines and around the world for many years. were looking almost a foot of rise per decade. on the home that that water you see behind me, the temperatures at the surface are indicative of what we normally see in august has officials and residents very worried.
Wetlands in north america. This is what a blue Carbon Ecosystem looks like. Phoebe fitz is a local wildlife photographer. She draws inspiration from this landscape. But even here, she can see the signs of climate change. So the Palm Trees, without the tops. Yeah. Show that this area is being affected by sealevel rise. Really . Because if there are Palm Trees growing, it means that the water was fresh enough for them to survive. And then when they lose their heads, it means that the Sea Level is rising and theres more and more saltwater coming in, and then they cant survive. insects chirping